SUMMARY:

• Michael is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data warehousing; extract, transform, and load (ETL); Big Data (Hadoop and NoSQL), business intelligence (BI); data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP); enterprise performance management (EPM); Data Governance, Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), Master Data Management (MDM) and database administration. Michael is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional from TDWI.
• Michael is a frequent speaker at major conferences, such as HIMSS, the BI Summit, TDWI, Oracle Open World, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) Collaborate, Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), He has written articles for the Journal of Management Excellence, produced the white paper Understanding an OLAP Solution from Oracle for Confidential, and coauthored Oracle Data Warehousing Unleashed (published by Sams). Michael is the lead author for Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP: The Guide to Oracle’s Multidimensional Solutions (published by Oracle Press)( 9th Best Seller at Oracle Open World - 2011).
• Achiever: Architected Oracle’s Business Intelligence solution. The solution was acquired by Moffitt, Mayo and MD Anderson in the first year.
• Superb Management Skills: lead and build data teams. Developed overall data strategy and convinced business and IT upper management to execute it.
• Drive value by creating Technological based solutions for Business problems and opportunities:
• Metadata Driven ETL
• Business Rules Exposed to End User
• Omic Support for Personalized Medicine (Big Data).
• Data Governance - Searchable Business and Technical Metadata and Process Metadata with data lineage and impact analysis.
• Hybrid Architecture that support both Single Version of Truth and Fit to Purpose
• Medaling - Loading and prioritization of different sources of same data elements.
• Appliance Model for HDWF (Exadata)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Big Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• We have over 100 million transactions per day. We need to aggregate these transactions and eliminate duplicates each day to produce reports for settlement for our Issuers. It is a complex process that needs to be extremely accurate and done very quickly. We have a strict 4 hour deadline to produce reports that moves over a trillion dollars a year between Issuers.
• Implementing Cloudera CDH 5.8.3 including Hive, Impala and Spark SQL. In addition, we utilize Zookeeper, Cloudera Manager, Yarn, Pig and Hbase. Future state architecture to include Arrow, HPL, Oozie, LLAP, Flume, Sqoop, Kafka and Spark Streaming.
• We are migrating from an IBM Mainframe environment to a Hadoop environment.
• We are creating a Data Lake to replace an Enterprise Data Warehouse. I am responsible for data architecture including data ingestion, data encryption, data model (physical and logical), disaster recovery, high availability, data formats and performance.
• Responsible for BI tools selection. We are currently utilizing Tableau and MicroStrategy for reporting and analytics.

Confidential, Westlake, Tx

Vice President, Data Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Drive the data strategy for Fidelity’s Personal & Workplace Investing (PWI) division. This includes Cloud, Big Data (Hadoop and NoSQL), Data Governance, Metadata, Data Movement (ETL,ELT,EII and EAI), Data Modeling, Big Data, Data Architecture Frameworks (Staging to EDW to Data Marts and OLAP), Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Cloud (AWS - EC2) and Data Quality for all major PWI Technology Portfolio initiatives.
• Drive value by creating technological based solutions for Business problems and Solutions.
• Drive and development the Data Strategy roadmap to align with business requirements.
• Lead TagX NC Exadata Charter - Created Exadata best practices and created audit team to enforce. Saved $10 million dollar in efficiency.
• Key member of Negotiation Team for enterprise license for Oracle and Informatica.
• $9 Million Informatica Enterprise License
• $13 million Oracle Database Enterprise License
• Member of Compute Strategy Team - Developing Data as a Service Strategy. I worked on data patterns to move to a data architecture that included Cloud framework.
• Big Data Architecture including
• Oracle - In Memory Database Option - POC - Simplify Architecture (Eliminate Indexes and denormalize data models for faster deployments). 10 times better performance. Reviewing as a low cost Exadata alternative.
• Business Case Review - Review and assist in the preparing Data Section of Business cases.
• Data Governance Committee - Facilitate the Data Governance Committee
• Data Responsibility for definite source of data (Enterprise owns data).
• Business Definitions
• Technical Metadata Definitions
• MDM and Conformed Definitions
• Directly manage three teams:
• General Data Architecture
• Data Movement and Data Modeling
• Data Governance, Master Data Management and Metadata

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• lead the Health Sciences (Healthcare & Life Sciences) Architecture for Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation(HDWF) and Enterprise Healthcare Analytics(EHA) including SaaS and SaaP, SOA, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Process Manager, Business Rules Engine, ETL, Data Governance, Data Warehousing Environment, Meta Data, Predictive Analytics Environment, Data Quality, Web Services, MDM and OLAP.
• Developed the Data Warehousing Architecture as a hybrid Architecture with Persistent Staging Area, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Marts and Cubes.
• Drive Sales through meeting customers, trusted advisor and developing strategy.
• Drive the Enterprise Architecture roadmaps to align with business requirements.
• Aligned with product strategy to develop innovative products that delight our customers.
• Evangelize our strategy to outside customers many at the executive level such as CFO, CEO and CIO levels.
• Served as trusted advisor to major clients such as Wal-Mart, GE and Farmers on such issues as Data Governance, MDM, OLAP, Meta Data and ETL.
• Evangelize the BI & PM strategy to outside customers many at the executive level such as CFO, CEO and CIO levels.
• Created Data Governance program for major Fortune 500 Company.
• Meet with outside research and advisory groups such as Gartner to convey BI & PM strategy message.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the data architecture team of 17 direct reports and over 35 indirect off shore reports for a division of McKesson (formerly Access Health) providing data support for disease management program to assist chronically ill individuals though nurse intervention.
• Drove the data architecture as well as the ETL architecture (development). We provide technical roadmaps of the vision of the data architecture for upper management.
• Led the BI architecture for a new product framework.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect consultant for many large data warehousing projects including HealthTrans in Colorado.

Confidential

Director, Data Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Led the DBA and ETL groups for EXACTIS.COM (24/7 Media). He was responsible for all database administration including database architecture (physical and logical design), operational support, and data warehousing.
• Built the team from scratch - 10 DBAs and ETL personnel.
• 3 million dollars data budget.
• The main tools were Oracle 9 and 8i (8.1 and 8.0), Oracle OPS and RAC, and Informatica.
• Responsible for the OLTP databases and the data warehousing databases. The OLTP had over 800 transactions per second. The data warehouse environment was utilized for building customer profiles and selective marketing them. He oversaw departmental budgeting, recruiting, hiring and promotion, test and development of database support, license negotiations, educating, replications, backup and recovery with EMC BCV disk arrays, performance tuning and partitioning.

Confidential

Senior Oracle Instructor and Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Taught database classes and consulted with Oracle - versions 6, 7 and 8. This encompassed Data Warehousing, Data Design and Modeling, Performance Tuning, Database Administration, Advanced Database Administration, PL/SQL Version 1 & 2, Forms 3.0 and 4.5, Pro*C and Advanced SQL. The technical aspect of this project included: Oracle versions 6, 7 and 8, SQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C, TKPROF, OEM and Forms 3.0 and 4.5.

Confidential

Senior Database Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performance tuning, creating and maintaining distributive architecture, debugging of stored procedures, creating and implementing Physical DDL (schemas, roles, indexes, Primary Keys, Foreign Keys and Tables) and assisting in the development of the Logical Data Model. The technical aspect of this project included: Oracle 6 and 7, Pro*C, DB2, MVS, Sequent Unix Servers, SQL, PL/SQL and Baachman Case Tool.

Confidential, Golden, CO

Senior Business Modeler

Responsibilities:

• Supported the finance department by directing the design, development and implementation of several major financial information systems, including financial reporting and data warehousing.
• Reported to the Chief Finance Officer and was on the strategic planning team. He acted as a liaison between business and the information technology department.
• Designed and developed an online executive information system for senior management utilizing DB2 and Pilot’s Forest and Trees. These systems were implemented at the highest executive level.
• Developed one of the first data warehouses
• Developed an OLAP solution utilizing Time Intelligence - the forerunner to Arbor Software. The application provided the Sales and Marketing department with detailed analysis of Profits and revenues by Brand, Package, Geographic Zone and Time. With this information, Senior Management was able to significantly improve the management of the corporate budget resulting in $20 million improvement.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Applications Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported FCS - one of the first financial software packages - the forerunner to Arbor Software - Essbase.
• FCS was founded by Robert Earle - The Father of OLAP.